gleam是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /vi. 微光, 闪光, 短暂而微弱的闪现，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The damp mist began to clear away, and a sudden gleam of light revealed a low-lying shore about six miles distant.
-- A gleam of satisfaction shot across the quartermaster's face.
-- The gleam of joy that shone in his eyes died away.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the same instant I heard responsive shouts, saw figures and a gleam of light dash in at the door, heard voices and tumult, and saw Orlick emerge from a struggle of men, as if it were tumbling water, clear the table at a leap, and fly out into the night.
-- No gleam of fire, no glittering shower of sparks, no roar of bellows; all shut up, and still.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The calm countenance of the guide seemed to gleam upon me.
-- I had begun to feel as if there had been one gleam of hope.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Michaelis talked frankly about himself, quite frankly, without affectation, simply re-vealing his bitter, indifferent, stray-dog's soul, then showing a gleam of revengeful pride in his success.
-- And her belly had lost the fresh, round gleam it had had when she was young, in the days of her German boy, who really loved her physically.
-- She was old, old at twenty-seven, with no gleam and sparkle in the flesh.
-- And the longish slope of her haunches and her buttocks had lost its gleam and its sense of richness.
-- The rain was holding off, and in the air came a queer pellucid gleam of May.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- returned Clennam, upon whom this impression was so efficiently made by a mere gleam of the polished head that he spoke the ship instead of the Tug.
-- A low double knock at the bright brass knocker, a gleam of light into the road from the opened door, a brief pause for inquiry and answer and the door was shut, and they were housed.
-- In the lull consequent on the departure in that first vacuity which ensues on every separation, foreshadowing the great separation that is always overhanging all mankind Arthur stood at his desk, looking dreamily out at a gleam of sun.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the distance he saw the diminished dotted boat; and then a swift gleam of bubbling white water; and after that nothing more; whence it was concluded that the stricken whale must have indefinitely run away with his pursuers, as often happens.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- interposed Mr. Bumble: with a gleam of pleasure in his metallic eyes.
-- 'If your answer be what I almost dare to hope it is,' retorted Harry, 'it will shed a gleam of happiness upon my lonely way, and light the path before me.
-- CHAPTER XXXVII IN WHICH THE READER MAY PERCEIVE A CONTRAST, NOT UNCOMMON IN MATRIMONIAL CASES Mr. Bumble sat in the workhouse parlour, with his eyes moodily fixed on the cheerless grate, whence, as it was summer time, no brighter gleam proceeded, than the reflection of certain sickly rays of the sun, which were sent back from its cold and shining surface.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The gleam of a thousand lights is often as effective as the persuasive light in a wooing and fascinating eye.
-- He envied him, and now, as he looked at the well-dressed jolly salesman, whom he so much liked, the gleam of the rival glowed in his eye.
-- The first gleam of fairness shone in this proposition for Carrie.
-- Walk among the magnificent residences, the splendid equipages, the gilded shops, restaurants, resorts of all kinds; scent the flowers, the silks, the wines; drink of the laughter springing from the soul of luxurious content, of the glances which gleam like light from defiant spears; feel the quality of the smiles which cut like glistening swords and of strides born of place, and you shall know of what is the atmosphere of the high and mighty.
-- The man imagined he saw a feverish gleam in the applicant's eye.
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